Reading Wednesday
Apr. 19th, 2023 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabby Currently reading: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. Holy fuck you guys. This book. This book is not fucking around at all. I'm now about halfway through and I know it's going to break my heart.
Plans have shifted when our heroes find a revolution stirring and join in an attempt to strike while the empire is on its back foot and free the tortoise god who was responsible for all tortoises being able to communicate with each other. It's very obviously tragically doomed so I'm not spoiling anything by telling you that it goes horribly, viscerally wrong, but since the next section takes us to the empress's POV and how she came to be unstitched from the sky in the first place, there's somewhat of a respite? Kind of? Anyway I'm making it sound chaotic, which it is, but it's so skillfully written that all of this makes absolute sense in context and is as emotionally gripping as it is weird.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Look, Ishmael. Whales attacking whaling ships is not some inherent act of malice or cruelty on the part of the whale. It's self-defence. If someone was shooting you with harpoons all the time, you'd try to kill them too.
Plans have shifted when our heroes find a revolution stirring and join in an attempt to strike while the empire is on its back foot and free the tortoise god who was responsible for all tortoises being able to communicate with each other. It's very obviously tragically doomed so I'm not spoiling anything by telling you that it goes horribly, viscerally wrong, but since the next section takes us to the empress's POV and how she came to be unstitched from the sky in the first place, there's somewhat of a respite? Kind of? Anyway I'm making it sound chaotic, which it is, but it's so skillfully written that all of this makes absolute sense in context and is as emotionally gripping as it is weird.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Look, Ishmael. Whales attacking whaling ships is not some inherent act of malice or cruelty on the part of the whale. It's self-defence. If someone was shooting you with harpoons all the time, you'd try to kill them too.
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Date: 2023-04-19 10:48 pm (UTC)If I had the chops I'd write Moby Dick/Pequod but I don't write that kind of thing.
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Date: 2023-04-19 09:42 pm (UTC)Did the "Call me Mikhail" title of my one post trigger a re-read?
Funny either way.
Only thing I remember about Moby Dick is QueeQueg who in the old black and white movie looked cool as hell.
Oh, and the character Ahab in Marvel Comics based on the film appearance
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Date: 2023-04-19 09:47 pm (UTC)I can't believe they made a film of it. It's too weird.
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